diff --git a/vendor/browser-transforms.js b/vendor/browser-transforms.js
index c2a37c0a508..c553bf2e3eb 100644
--- a/vendor/browser-transforms.js
+++ b/vendor/browser-transforms.js
@@ -18,13 +18,13 @@
 
 'use strict';
 var runScripts;
+var headEl;
 
 var transform = require('./fbtransform/lib/transform').transform;
 var visitors = require('./fbtransform/visitors').transformVisitors;
 var transform = transform.bind(null, visitors.react);
 var docblock = require('./fbtransform/lib/docblock');
 
-var headEl = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
 
 exports.transform = transform;
 
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ exports.exec = function(code) {
   return eval(transform(code));
 };
 
+if (typeof window === "undefined" || window === null) {
+  return;
+}
+headEl = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
+
 var run = exports.run = function(code) {
   var jsx = docblock.parseAsObject(docblock.extract(code)).jsx;
 
@@ -42,10 +47,6 @@ var run = exports.run = function(code) {
   headEl.appendChild(scriptEl);
 };
 
-if (typeof window === "undefined" || window === null) {
-  return;
-}
-
 var load = exports.load = function(url, callback) {
   var xhr;
   xhr = window.ActiveXObject ? new window.ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP')